So I had
received my October Julep Maven box (much to my surprise) about a week (or two) back. This
is just an “unboxing” type of post, I did do swatches but I don't know the lasting power etc. I do have a slight issue
with Julep Maven—my next paragraph will explain the issues if you want to just
see what I got and my impressions of it I’d suggest you skip this paragraph—but
do have general good things to say about the box itself.
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| Of course, everything came nicely wrapped and packaged. There was candy corn...but I ate it before I took this photo (oops) |
My issues: I had gone online in the space of time
allotted to skip my box…this is a 20 dollar box and recently I just had been
skipping them because funding was low. You have a window of 3(ish) days to skip
the month, and yes I went during that time.
I guess it didn’t go through properly because a week later I get the
email saying that my box is coming to me in the mail. Sure enough I had a
transaction pending on my card account, and it was in transit. In the email
they send you, there is a link so you can email the company. I promptly emailed
them explaining this issue, and asking them what can be the plan of action. It
has been about 2 weeks, and I got NOTHING from the company. Not even a
confirmation email was sent, no response at all. Now I usually give a company
3-5 days to respond…nada. Plus I realized, if you want to cancel your box, you
have to call in… BUT their hours are the typical 8-5 hours and even shorter on
Saturday. So if you are like me and do clinicals, commute for about an hour
(one way), have classes and work 9-9 everyday minus Sunday…HOW THE HECK ARE YOU
SUPPOSED TO CANCEL? I feel like there should be a way to email your
cancellation. There’s my rant for the day…onto the box itself.
Even though this debacle occurred I did find a few bright
sides. This month was about Fall/
Halloween –esque colors and especially crackles. I don’t know about ya’ll but I wasn’t a huge
fan of the crackles and feel like this “trend” is done and over with. I have the box Classic with a Twist and was
really happy that I did not get the crackles, from what I’ve heard on the
Youtube community is that a lot of people were opting out due to the
crackle.
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| The products themselves (again minus the candy corn) |
So what did I get? 2 polishes, 1 bottle of quick dry
drops, 2 nail glitters and CANDY CORN. (I’m a total sucker for that stuff, even
though I have come to realize that I should not be opening these types of boxes
when I’m hungry…I eat everything up immediately!) Anyways.
1.
Boris & Nicole Nail Polish: In the bottle, this
color is a gold/pumpkin/ blackened copper color, but this beautiful tone does
not really transfer onto the nail. In my swatch you can note that the color is
much darker than the bottle. I’m not sure
if you can pick it up in my photo but the base is more of a dark orange-fuschia-red…
It is still a pretty color and opaque with just one coat (although I am a
religious two coater) but with one coat,
there is more of the pinky tone. Two coats gives you a more golden tone. I’m a
little sad that it’s not a lot more like the bottle but it’s still something I
would wear.
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| ONE COAT: Gwenyth on the Left. Boris & Nicole on Right. |
2.
Gwenyth Nail Polish: This color honestly just looks
like a nail treatment color. I would not
have picked this out on my own because it just doesn’t look impressive to me.
One coat does nothing for the nails…two gives you a barely there pink tone.
This doesn’t really impress me at all, but I guess that’s why they sent a
suggestion card on how to use both nail polishes. I really don’t know if I’ll
actually wear this, maybe as a base coat. *shrug*
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| TWO COATS: Gwenyth on Left. Boris & Nicole on Right. |
3.
Julep Quick Dry Drops: Oh my gosh, I’ve never used
quick dry drops but these are amazing. They have a great scent (lavender) and
really does help with drying out the polish. One small drop on each nail does
suffice.
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| Clear Liquid. Does not leave fingers feeling greasy...AT ALL! |
4.
Nail Glitters: I got two of these, one is a black with
silver and then a deeper pumpkin orange with gold. These are a little on the chunkier side. I haven’t used nail glitters before and know you
can use them on the tips…but I kinda wish I got a step by step tutorial on how
to use these. If you all know of anyone
who does a simple tutorial please link below.
When I tried them out, I still got glitter stuck on my dry portion of
nails.
So overall, this box looks
promising and I can say that I will use at least half of the box. But I will still cancel this subscription
just because I don’t want to run into the same issue as this month. How was your box?
xoxo,
Emily
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